Verizon Business has announced a three-year extension to its existing contract to provide the London Stock Exchange with global communications support. Verizon Business is upgrading the exchange's global wide area network (WAN) communication infrastructure to further enhance high-speed data transmission and message-broadcasting capabilities.

The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc. (Nasdaq:NDAQ) announced today (August 20) that its Board of Directors has authorized the company to explore alternatives to divest its approximately 31% stake (61.3 million shares) in the London Stock Exchange Group plc (LSE). NASDAQ has retained J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. and UBS Investment Bank to assist in its review of sale alternatives.

Member firms of the London Stock Exchange today (August 9) executed over 1 million trades on SETS, the first time in a single day. The milestone was passed at 15:15 BST and it is estimated that there were 1,262,745 trades over the course of the whole day.

The London Stock Exchange announced on July 12 that it will launch a dedicated new market for issuers of specialist funds.

Unless otherwise stated, all figures referenced below refer to the three months ended 30 June 2007 and the corresponding period last year.

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TradElect, the London Stock Exchange's new electronic trading system, has today (June 18) gone live in London. With the launch of this entirely new technology platform, market participants will benefit from significant increases in both speed of trading and system capacity.

The London Stock Exchange and the Bahrain Stock Exchange (BSE) signed on June 13 a long term co-operation agreement to formalize their existing strong ties.

London Stock Exchange communicated the preliminary results Of London Stock Exchange Group Plc for the year ended 31 March 2007.

Lyxor Asset Management have become the first new Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) provider to join the London Stock Exchange's growing ETF market since a change to stamp duty rules made it easier for overseas firms to issue new stock market traded index trackers in the UK.

The average daily number of SETS trades during April 2007 was up 64 per cent on the same month last year to 465,967, making April the sixth month in a row that year on year growth in SETS trades exceeded 50 per cent.

New UK research shows that ordinary savers and pensioners bear brunt of £3bn share tax